The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-08

was traced by an educated Indian boy.
TIE Lake Shore and Mississippi Valley
department Of the American Shipping and
Industrial League met in Chicago on the
18th with twenty. i've delegates present.
TIE national convention Of the Building
Trades Union began in Chicago on the 18th,
eleven cities being represented.
HALF the business part Of Hurley, Wis.,
was destroyed BY fire on the 18th. Loss,
$4,000.
THERE was . report in Chicago on the
18th that the Illinois Supreme Court had
decided to order new trial in the case Of
the condemned anarchists.
Mrs. LANGTRY recently at San Francisco
renowned her allegiance to Great Britain,
and took out her first papers declaring her
intention to become citizen Of the United
Stetes. Her object, il was believed. was
to ultimately apply for divorce.
Four men were killed by tramcar fall
ing down the shaft of the Vulcan mine at
Norwich, Mich, on the morning Of the 18th.
FARES from San Francisco to Hong Kong
and Yokohama have been reduced to 900
and for the round trip to $3.50 because Of
Canadian competition.
FIRE in Sunman, Ind, the other day de-
stroyed . warehouse and general store and
nine other buildings.
THREE Of the fur robbers who some time
ago murdered Detective Halligan and res
cued McMann, their leader, at Ravenna,
o., are reported to have been captured at
Alpena, Mich.
STRAwN's Opera House and other build.
ings It jacksonville, Ill, were destroyed
BY fire recently. Loss, $4,000.
W. J. WILLIAMS, treasurer Of Jerauld
County, Oak, is reported missing. His &C
counts are short 8, 600.
The damage by the Marshficld Wis.,
fire was much greater than rs first re-
ported. Instead Of 81, OO0, 600, it would be
between three and four millions. Only one
house remained uninjured by the flames.
The conservation Of Right Rev. Law
renee Seaman Is Bishop Of Utah took place
recently in St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Cathedral, San Francisco.
AT meeting Of the Norwegian Lutheran
Synod ct Stoughton, Wis, recently the
discussion Of the doctrine Of predestination
caused split.
Mr.. DAVID ARMSTRONG has had his bond
as receiver Of the Fidelity National Bank,
of Cincinnati, accepted, and he is now in
charge Of the affairs Of tho defuuct institu-
ton.
IsAAcJ. MILLER and Gustav Tafel, trustees
Of the late Archbishop Purcell creditors,
have fled their report in the Cine innati
probate court. It shows the total receipts
and disbursements since January 4, 1856, to
be go, 600; paid creditors, $50. 600; paid for
expenses and incideutals, 81, 900; leaving a
balance on hand of about $lO, 800. The liza
bilities were over &, 100000.
AFTER an excited discussion the Chicago
Master Masons' Association decided on the
18th by . vote Of Al to 30 to arbitrate with
the bricklayers. An arbitration committee
of five was appointed.
The Standard Paper Company, Of Milwau-
kee, has made an assignment to ]. E.
Friend, who gave bond for $4,000.
ALEXANDER A. TALMAGR, vice-presldent
and general manager of the Wabash, st.
Louis 4 Pacific railway, died in his private
car, one mile east Of Peru, Ind, of dysen-
terry on the night of the 18th. He was en-
route with his wife for Toledo, where he
to take yachting trip on the
lakes. Mr.. Talmage had been sick for sew
eral weeks and an attack of dysentery i'm
PEELED him to seek health by recreation and
he was on trip with this end in view when
his death occurred.
Findlay, O., blew up on the 18th. Four tramps
atoms.
MRS MoLLoY, charged with being acces.
sorry to the murder of Mrs. Sarah Graham
at Springfield, Mo-, has been granted q
change Of venue to the Christian County
circuit court.
WILLIAM KIssANE, alias w. K. Rogers,
hoo Id int oil ri of
San Francisco, pleading the statute of linn
itatlons to the suit Of the Chemical Ma
tional Bank of New York.
The high license law fixing the rate in
cities at 81, 900 went into effect in Minnesota
on the LIST.
The Railway Age reports that between
the United States 8, 754 miles of new main
Age believes that the total for 1887 may sur
tory Of the country.
The sheriff OF Chicago has taken posses
sion of the property of the Knights of Labor
Publishing Company on = confession Of
judgment for IS, l3S A receiver has been
appointed.
The Utah Constitutional Convention met
at Salt Lake on the SOth for the purpose Of
securing the admission Of Utah IS State
into the Union.
F. W. BIrPER, Of Chicago, the county
meat contractor who agreed to turn States
evidence in the Doodle cases, has disap
peared. It was generally believed that he
had been taken on secret junketing tour
by agents Of the prosecution in order to
keep him away from the defendants.
CUTTER & SAvAGE's lumber yard at
Spring Lake, Mich, was destroyed by fire
recently with 2,O00, 600 feet Of lumber.
By the explosion Of the boiler Of thresh-
ing machine near Mascoutah, ILL.,, the other
day one man was killed and another fatally
injured, and the thresher and two horses
burned to death.
THE SOUTH
A CONTRACT for an equestrian statue Of
General Robert E. Lee has been awarded
to the French sculptor, Nercie, Of Paris.
A SPECIAL from Lonoke County, Ark,
says that cattle are dying in large numbers
with what veterinary surgeons pronounce
As splenic fever. The loss in some locali-
ties has been very large and 30 far no
remedy has been found to stop its ravages.
THOMPSON, an agent Of the Wilkoskis,